In other news, I'm getting the hang of xml transformations
using saxon. Xt wasn't cutting it on the laptop I've been
using. Nor was Xalan, but of course I'm using a company
laptop with windows98. But my home machine will run them
fine.

Just finished a crazy week at work. Got handed an
integration project, converting the previous company's
website to look like ours. Of course, it's a different
platform running a different web server, and the content is
generated from binary files, and no source code...

Decompilers are a great thing. :)

So the code is now in assembly. Working to convert it into
a higher level language. Anyone know of an Assembly to C++
Converter?

Also handed a variety of word documents to convert into
XML. Eventually they'll go up as HTML on the intranet
server. Found majix. Hopefully it
will be able to what they say it can do, transform Word and
RTF Docs to XML.

We'll see

Well it's time to find a new place to live. My significant
other has decided I'm too boring. Needs her space away
from a comp geek. 7 years together. argh.

working on an image scroller in JavaScript. Should be
pretty basic. Don't want it to suck up a lot of bandwidth,
just scroll thru thumbnails and keep the processing down.
Maximize speed and execution, keep that info
flowin.

Life is good, I have to say I've been
feeling really good lately. Maybe it's that psychic shield
I've woven around the apartment, that could explain why i
don't like leaving the computer... nah. Could be the
running. Started doing that again. Maybe I'll be back in
triath shape again? Nah. Too much exercise fries your
brain. At least running in a lot of heat. :)

Looking for projects to be a part of
not sure how I can correlate extracurrilcular coding and
get "advogato" credit for it. I really don't want to be
just an observer, but I guess if the majority says so...
eh, this site has been good for getting me off my
programming butt, and busy making some some kewl things,
and for that I'm thankful.

It's friday nite, working on some JavaScript code. People
say it's really easy. But that's really only if you do
easy things with it. The tricky stuff is still tricky and
it's still fun. I don't know.

learning cold fusion at work. inherited a box from a
company that used it so i guess i get to learn how to keep
it alive.

lots of asp code, writing an email subscription form for
the web stats reports in perl (cgi-based). lots to do and
then provide info
for a CRM architectural implementation. good thing is it
will be hard to get bored with so many things going on. :)

and she can go ahead and leave. only means more time I can
spend with people that want to be around me, and I them.

completely revamped my site in the space of 5 hours.
doesn't say much for my site, but it downloads a heck of a
lot faster. actually added content. not sure of the
quality, (well I'm pretty sure of it), but there's stuff
out there now. code snippets, a start of an image gallery,
basic stuff, thoughts section.

well i'm tired now. haven't gotten used to sleeping by
myself yet. 7 years we've been together...
well, it gives me time to learn new things i guess.

word of caution:

don't ever spend more time on the computer than your woman,
no matter how much that code means to you, your woman will
mean more, especially when all you have left is your code
(and in my case I'll have plenty of time to improve it)

well it worked. I had a log file with multiple values, a
converted datestamp in the first column and a need to
sort. Sort::Fields to the
rescue. I admit, it saved me a lot of time in trying to
build my own sort routine.
Sort::Fields

That's right. I've finally broken thru a dumbass barrier.
I now know at least one thing I can do with XML! Yes, sad
to say, I knew this stuff was cool, but I just didn't see
how or why. Holy Blinders On! I'm already going to start
work on a few documents I've been meaning to create. And
now, I'll be able to do it in style ;)